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Vote in Montenegro Sunday Will Test
NATO's Monetary, Military Strategy

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Matthew Kaminski Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated June 9, 2000 12:01 a.m. ET

The coordinated strategy of the U.S. and European Union in Montenegro is to buy peace with millions of dollars in economic and, less advertised, military aid for its pro-Western leader, Milo Djukanovic. Sunday's elections will help show whether the strategy is working.

It is the first public test, watched closely abroad, since Mr. Djukanovic steered Montenegro away from its sister republic in Yugoslavia, Serbia. Polls are planned in two cities where a third of the mountainous republic's 600,000 people live, including the...